An initial version of this article stated there was a media blackout on this incident, but it appears Cork Beo did report it on Christmas Day 2023. The exact date remains a mystery but it was recorded sometime over Christmas 2023. A factcheck on the article was compiled by the journal .ie and can be read here.
Thank God for social media or we wouldn’t have a clue what’s really going on in society.
The first viral video that emerged in Ireland on New Year’s Day 2024 is a young Irishman being sucker punched by a thug dressed all in black with an accomplice running in quickly afterwards.
What transpires is a young man getting a full on punch in the mouth from a a hooded thug, knocking him backwards with the thug then pulling out a knife from his pocket and threatening other young men.
His accomplice then runs in with a short metal bar, waving it in the air, threatened all the young men with it. Frightened onlookers stood still afraid to hit them thugs back.